MS Dynamics 365 Business Central (Finance) functional consultant

Role: MS Dynamics 365 Business Central (Finance) functional consultant

Hybrid model

Project duration – 6 months

Interview process – L1 L2 & L3

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We are looking for a Business Central Functional Consultant (Finance) with strong finance and accounting expertise, ideally with experience in UK charities or regulated environments.

The role will focus on the functional configuration and operation of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central to support accrual‐based, double‐entry accounting, charity fund accounting, statutory reporting, and audit compliance. The consultant will play a key role in ensuring financial governance, clear audit trails, and transparent trustee oversight.

Key responsibilities include:

• Configuring Business Central core finance modules, including General Ledger, Bank Accounts, Chart of Accounts, Journals, Posting Groups, and Dimensions.
• Implementing fund accounting controls, ensuring accurate segregation of restricted and unrestricted funds and compliant SOFA and balance‐sheet reporting.
• Designing and configuring banking, cash management, and reconciliation processes.
• Implementing payment intake processes that integrate third‐party providers (e.g. SumUp) with Business Central via clearing accounts, ensuring accurate recognition of income, fees, and settlements.
• Establishing journal posting controls and mandatory dimensions to enforce data integrity and audit compliance.
• Supporting month‐end and year‐end close, including accruals, journals, trial balance validation, and reconciliation reviews.
• Acting as the primary functional liaison between finance teams, auditors, trustees, third‐party payment providers, and implementation partners.
• Translating operational scenarios (event donations, ad‐hoc and volunteer‐led collections) into scalable and compliant Business Central processes.
• Supporting finance data migration, including opening balances, AR/AP, and fixed assets, and validating migrated data against source systems.
• Contributing to project deliverables such as business requirements, functional design documentation, configuration workbooks, and training materials.
• Define data migration scope for finance data, including, Opening balances, Outstanding AR/AP. Validate migrated data against source systems and support reconciliation of opening balances and trial balances.
• Knowledge of data migration and connection to Dataverse from Sage 200.

Required experience and skills:

• Strong hands‐on experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (Finance).
• Solid grounding in finance and accounting principles, including:
• Single and double‐entry accounting
• Accrual accounting
• Trial balances and period close processes
• Practical experience configuring General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, VAT/tax, and dimensions.
• Ability to communicate confidently with finance teams, accountants, and auditors, and to explain Business Central functionality in clear business terms.
• Strong requirements elicitation and documentation skills.

Desirable experience:

• Experience within a UK charity or not‐for‐profit environment.
• Prior exposure to Sage 200.
• Experience supporting management and statutory reporting and working alongside Power BI teams.